Doctors

Dr Jonathan C Gibbs (m)

Partner

MB BS FRCGP DRCOG

Graduated from Kings College Hospital, London in 1988 after which he spent three years doing hospital training in London and Kent followed by one year's GP training in Scarborough. He joined the practice in August 1995. His medical interests include IT, child health surveillance and minor surgery. He achieved Fellowship by Assessment in 2000. He is the practice Lead for Clinical Governance, Prescribing, IT, and the Quality and Outcomes Framework. He is also a GP Tutor for medical students based at the University of Nottingham Medical School.

Dr Christopher J Batty (m)

Partner

MB ChB DRCOG

Graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1989, having enjoyed an active role in medical student life, being Treasurer of the Society in his fourth year and Captain of the Medical School Football Team for three years. Following House Officer jobs, he moved to Macclesfield in Cheshire for his vocational training and took a year out to work in Australia prior to finishing his GP training. Since being in Lincoln, he has taken up the position of Club doctor to Lincoln City Football Club, where he is now in his tenth season, and has graduated from Nottingham University with an MSc in Sports Medicine. Within the practice, he is responsible for finance and complaints, with a shared responsibility for personnel and is also responsible for the practice appointment system. Clinically, he has interests in asthma, diabetes and minor surgery in addition to Sports Medicine. He is also a GP with a Special Interest in Orthopaedics.

Dr Paul Fitzgerald (m)

Partner

MB BCh BAO MRCSI MRCGP PGCME

Graduated from University College Dublin in 1994. Following internship, he completed a three year Pre-Fellowship training programme in Surgery in Ireland. After Membership examinations, he spent two years as an Orthopaedic Registrar in Cork and Limerick. He then moved to the UK in 2000 and completed the Lincoln Vocational Training Scheme in 2003. He then worked as a Salaried Principal in two local Practices before joining Minster Medical Practice as a Partner in August 2004. He has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and is an approved GP Trainer. He enjoys the wide variety of General Practice.

Dr Julia Brewin (f)

Partner

BMedSci BM BS DCH DRCOG MRCGP

Graduated from Nottingham Medical School in 1986. Worked in Nottingham and Derby before joining the Derby Vocational Training Scheme. Following Membership in 1991, she joined the Jessop Medical Practice in Ripley, Derbyshire as a Partner and also worked as an appraiser and a clinical assistant in diabetes in Derby Royal Infirmary. She completed a post graduate certificate in diabetes in 2002. She moved to Lincolnshire in 2004 where she worked as an appraiser, as a GP with a special interest in diabetes and a long-term locum at Sleaford Medical Group before becoming a Partner there in 2006 until August 2013. She was mentor to the Nurse Practitioner and was GP tutor to final year medical students at the University of Nottingham Medical School. Clinically her interests include mental health, diabetes and palliative care but considers herself and enjoys being a generalist.

Dr Sarah Culpitt (f)

Partner

BSc MBBS MRCP MRCGP

Qualified from The London Hospital Medical College in 1993. Dr. Culpitt initially trained in General internal Medicine at various London hospitals. She gained MRCP in 1996, following which she took an academic post at The National Heart and Lung Institute studying and researching lung disease. She subsequently left the NHS to pursue other medical roles including trek and remote area medicine, combining this with private practice in the financial district of London. After travelling widely and remotely in the Himalayas, she returned to NHS practice in 2012. She moved to Lincoln in 2013 to be close to her family, and to train in General Practice. Dr Culpitt completed her GP training in 2016. She is delighted to be working at the Minster Medical Practice and relishes the broad challenge of GP work. She retains an interest in lung disease, and in all aspects of Internal Medicine.

Dr Aurelia Moreno (f)

Associate Doctor

LMS DFFP

Graduated from University Complutense in Madrid in 1989 and moved to the UK where she initially gained wide postgraduate experience in surgical jobs, and particularly in orthopaedics. She spent one year as Anatomy Demonstrator at St George's Medical School in London and passed Primary FRCS in 1995. She then joined The Greenwich Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice in South East London. She completed her training in Lincolnshire in 2001 after placements in psychiatry in Lincoln and GP Registrar at Market Rasen. She joined Minster Medical Practice as a GP Assistant and became a Salaried Doctor in 2003. She achieved ALS Provider Certificate in 1998 and DFFP in 2001. She ran a teenage Family Planning Clinic at Market Rasen. Her interests include gynaecology, family planning, orthopaedics and minor surgery.

Nurse Practitioners

Miss Katherine Wilkinson (f)

Our Advanced Nurse Practitioner is a trained specialist nurse who has undertaken additional medical education in order to provide advanced nursing care and to prescribe medication.

Advanced Nurse practitioners can provide treatment and advice for many problems for which you may have seen a doctor for in the past. Their main areas of expertise are in the management of common illnesses and long term conditions.

Our Advanced Nurse Practitioner can assess and examine you, make a diagnosis and provide advice and treatment including a prescription if required. She can make referrals to hospital doctors or other health care professionals, and admit patients into hospital when necessary.

Nurses

Dorothy Phillips RN

Kim Hawes RN

Available by appointment for general nursing duties, e.g. dressings, immunisations, ear syringing etc, which the doctor may arrange. In addition they run specialist clinics, e.g. Travel Advice, Smear clinics, Diabetic clinics, Coronary Heart Disease and Asthma, together with various health promotion activities. They also assist the doctors with various clinics.

Healthcare Assistants

Phlebotomists

Mrs Jo BothamAvailable by appointment for blood tests only.

Practice Management

Mrs Jo Downes

Practice Manager

The Practice Manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology.

The Practice Manager supports the Doctors and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop services to enhance patient care. If you have any problems with regard to the running of the Practice, or any suggestions on how you feel this may be improved, she will be pleased to discuss this with you and pass on any comments to the Doctors.

Administration

Practice Administrator - Dani

Provides administrative support to the Practice Manager. Responsible for administration of the practice recall system.

Clinical Administration - Issy

Secretaries - Sue & Tracey

In addition to providing secretarial support to the Practice, our secretaries also arrange hospital referral appointments and liaise between hospital consultants and your doctors.

Reception

Our receptionists are your first contact with the Practice. It is their job to advise and guide you and any information they receive is treated in the strictest confidence. If you are willing to provide them with details of your enquiry, they will then be able to assist you in the use of our range of services.

Confidentiality

Our staff are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the Doctors and Nurses. They have a difficult job to do, especially in dealing with large numbers of patients who visit and telephone the surgery each day. They have to try to keep both the Doctors and yourselves happy and in order to do so, may have to ask what appear to be unnecessary questions. Please remember that they are only doing what they are asked to do by the Doctors and, by providing the information they need, you are helping them to help you.

Access to Medical Records

Access to medical records can be arranged within the scope of the relevant laws - details from the Practice Manager. The request for copies of medical records needs to be in writing and charges may be made for the provision of this facility.

Community Midwives

Mrs Kay BoothKay provides the majority of antenatal and postnatal care and is at the surgery all day Thursday and Friday mornings. Kay works with a small team of midwives practicing in the North of the City. Mobile telephone: 07721 550730

If there is no response you can contact the Community Midwifery Office on 01522 573772 where you can leave a message.

For advice you can contact the Assessment Centre on 01522 573138.For emergencies or when in labour contact 01522 578305

Community Nurses

The District Nursing team offer care in the homes of those patients unable to attend the surgery. They are based at Ravendale Health Centre.